Shedding or peeling bark is characteristic of trees such as sycamore, redbud, silver maple, paperbark maple, shagbark hickory, birch, and lacebark pine The grayish brown bark on a large sycamore tree, for example, flakes off in irregular blotches, revealing a cream or whitish gray inner bark The loss of the outer layers of bark on sycamores is completely normalThe American sycamore is sometimes confused with the several other trees in the same family that are similar in appearance If the tree has single seed pod, it is the sycamore If there are two seed pods together, it's a London planetree If there are 35 seed pods, it is an Oriental planetree which has the seed pods hanging like beadsSycamore Fungus The majestic sycamore tree provides great shade for lawns Some species of the tree grow in US Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 8 File Sycamore Tree Bark Geograph Org Uk Jpg Wikimedia Commons English sycamore tree bark